Device for forming horseshoes



STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EBENEZER GATE, OF FRANKLIN, NEIN HAMPSHlRl'l'-,

DEVICE FOR FORMING HORS'ESI-IOES.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 31,780, dated March 26, 1861.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known. that I, EBENEZER GATE, of Franklin, in the county of Merrimack and State of New I-Iampshire, have invented a certain new and useful Device for Facilitating the Manufactureof Wy Improved Continuous Calked and VVebbed Horseshoe; and I do hereby-declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which forni a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1, represents a perspective View of my improved device. Fig. 2, represents the set by 'which the groove C, projection and inclined surface o, o are' formed. Fig. 3, represents a side view of the device with the set D, in position to form the groove C, projection d, and inclined surface c, o. Fig. 4, represents a side view of th device when being used to fashion the iron preparatory -to bending to forni the shoe.

The device consists of a shank E, (which Vis designed to it into a hole in an anvil, as

indicated in red and black lines, Fig. 3) `to the top of which is fastened the part A, B, provided with a groove or recess C, in the bottoni of which is an angular projection CZ.

The surface f, is nearly perpendicular, while the opposite side is inclined as shown at c, o. The top surface ci, is nearly plane, while the surface ZJ, is inclined as shown in the drawings.

In Fig. 4 F represents an end view of a bar of common iro-n previous to its being subjected to the action of my device, while G represents the same iron after it has been forced down into the groove or recess C.

The device is formed of iron, and it is well to be faced with steel in order to preserve tlie form perfect.

This device enables any ordinary smith to make my improved shoe, `and that too, from small pieces of iron, since he can rst weld the pieces together and `then after heating the same place one edge of the iron in the groove C, and by a hammer force theV iron down into the groove until it assumes the foim shown in red lines Fig. 4, when he moves the iron along and iinishes another part, and so on until the whole is completed. He then cuts off enough to form one shoe, and heats it again, and then bends it so that the partG will be on the inside of the shoe to form a web. The bending of the piece is effected by hammering it around the curved part A, the under surface of the part Gr being allowed to rest on the inclined surface b. It will thus be seen that the form o-f the top of A, as shown at Z2, is designed to support tlie part G of the iron while the shoe is being formed.

Holes are to be punched through the iroii so that the heads of the nails will rest in the groove formed in the continuous calk by the projection (l. Y As I have described my improved shoe in other applications of even date herewith, I do not deem' it necessary to enter into a `more detailed description of the same at this time.

The iron after it is formed by aid of this device preparatory to being cut up and bent into shoes, is shown in Fig. 5 on an enlarged scale.

claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent as an improved article of manufacture, is*

The portable device above described-the parts being constructed, arranged and coinbined in relation to each other asset forth whereby -the same tool or device usedto form the iron into shape also aiiswersthe further and additional purpose of a forming block orpattern to give the desired curvature and shape to the-shoe.

In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name.

E. GATE.

In presence of- DANIEL BARNARD, AUSTIN F. PIKE.

Having described my invention, what I 

